A visit to the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka revealed the final stages of preparations on Thursday. International Mother Language Day and Martyrs' Day, the Shaheed Minar premises will resonate with ...

A memorial titled “Gono Minar” has been proposed to feature a 250-year wall mural chronicling the history of mass movements in Bangladesh—from the 1760 Chuar Rebellion to the July Mass Uprising of ...

Language Movement veteran, Rabindra researcher and essayist Ahmad Rafique spent his final days in solitude. But yesterday, hundreds of admirers gathered at the Central Shaheed Minar to honour his ...

In the stillness of the early hours of Ekushey February, Bangladesh has begun honouring the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue defying the brutal repression of the ...

Jashore's fight for mother tongue began in February 1948, and during the course of the language movement, it eventually became the home to the second Shaheed Minar after Rajshahi in February 1952.

The interim government recently arrested the king of Baul music (Moharaja Abul Sarkar) after an Islamist extremist group claimed that a song by Abul Sarkar insulted Islam. Abul Sarker's wife, Aleya ...

Health assistants continued to hold their indefinite work stoppage on Sunday to raise their six-point demand, including ...